Islamic Terror

Independent scholar Falk analyzes the genesis of Islamic terror from many standpoints including religious cultural historical political social economic and above all psychological. Drawing on his training as a clinical psychologist Falk''s writings specialize in psychohistory and political psychology. Here he examines topics including infantile experience and adult terrorism the meaning of terror terrorists and their mothers narcissistic rage and Islamic terror and whether terrorists are normal people as some scholars claim. He also describes the infantile development of terrorist pathology non-psychoanalytic theories of terrorism globalization''s effect on terrorism and the notion of the clash of civilizations. Other topics addressed in this reader-friendly analysis include history''s first Islamic terrorists and three important casestwo recent deadly terrorists and a primary figure in our current war on terrordependent scholar Falk analyzes the genesis of Islamic terror from many standpoints including religious cultural historical political social economic and above all psychological. Drawing on his training as a clinical psychologist Falk''s writings specialize in psychohistory and political psychology. Here he examines topics including infantile experience and adult terrorism the meaning of terror terrorists and their mothers narcissistic rage and Islamic terror and whether terrorists are normal people as some scholars claim. He also describes the infantile development of terrorist pathology non-psychoanalytic theories of terrorism globalization''s effect on terrorism and the notion of the clash of civilizations. Examining the emotional structure of traditional Muslim families Falk shows us the Muslim child''s ambivalence toward his or her parents ways in which Muslims abuse women and children and the roots of Muslim rage and why all of that plays into the development of future terrorism. Other topics addressed in this reader-friendly analysis include history''s first Islamic terrorists and three important casestwo recent deadly terrorists and a primary figure in our current war on terror.The central idea throughout the book is that a person''s attitude toward terror and terrorismas well as whether he or she becomes a murderous terrorist or even who wages a global war on terrorhas much to do with that person''s own terrifying experiences in infancy and childhood. Such terror usually experienced first in the earliest interactions with the mother is symbolically expressed as Falk shows in fairy tales and myths about terrifying witches and female monsters. Further terror may be experienced in the relationship with the father and also in various other traumatic ways. It is these early terrors when extreme and uncontrollable that most often produce terrorists and wars on terror Falk argues. Thus his book focuses on the conscious but also on the irrational and unconscious causes of terrorism.